The next day.
Chen Lun and Maggie took a carriage and headed out of the city.
Early in the morning, Maggie received a letter from Robert and the Joneses.
The letter stated that the couple had made some new discoveries while treating patients in a village outside the city, and that these new discoveries might help in the development of drugs to treat "red dance."
Maggie seemed very excited. She found Chen Lun immediately and asked to leave the manor temporarily and go to the village.
Coincidentally, the night before, Chen Lun had used the increased divination weight and shielding against worldly interference to roughly divine the location of Akbinkovor in the fairyland—it was in the same direction as the village where Maggie was going.
So Chen Lun planned to go with her, and then when they were almost at the destination, he would leave alone to investigate Akbin's affairs.
"Captain! That little bottle of wine you gave me was amazing!"
Maggie sat opposite Chen Lun with a smile on her face.
"It tastes great! And I feel like my mystical accumulation has increased a lot, and I'm not far from the middle-sequence threshold...!"
After hearing what Maggie said, Chen Lun couldn't help but think of Flo Yin.
This morning, she was blushing as she made breakfast for herself. It seemed that she had sobered up and recalled the drunken words she said yesterday, feeling a little embarrassed.
'What a lovely girl...'
Chen Lun sighed.
He raised his head, looked at Maggie and said:
"Maggie, since you are about to complete the mysterious accumulation and the extraordinary knowledge of the natural faction sequence 7, do you have a way to obtain it? If necessary, I can help you find a way."
In the fairyland town of Kazt, the quests there are repeatable, and the reward pool includes extraordinary knowledge of natural faction sequence 9 to sequence 7. There is a chance to help Maggie get it later.
"No need, Captain!"
Maggie shook her head.
"Before I left the Natural Cult, I read a manuscript left by a senior in the elders' forest pavilion. It recorded another branch of nature... That is the path I yearn for. I don't want to be promoted to a forest ranger, but a plague doctor!"
Chen Lun was a little surprised.
'Isn't that the path Akbin took?'
So he asked Maggie:
"The manuscript you mentioned was written by a man called 'Akbinkov'?"
Maggie was immediately surprised and said loudly:
"Yes! It's this senior! How did you know, Captain?!"
Chen Lun shook his head, secretly feeling that Maggie was indeed the same type of person as Akbin in some aspects. He did not answer Maggie's questions, but fell into deep thought.
As far as he knew, Akbin in his previous life walked on this road until he reached darkness and was ultimately destroyed in his own hands... Because this lost branch sequence had long been verified by predecessors as a path that was bound to fail.
There have been a great many sequence paths in history, no less than a hundred, but in the end only ten of them still exist today.
That is - the seven righteous paths and the three hidden paths.
Because at their end there is indeed the true God.
This means that the ten paths are real and feasible ways to become a god... The god at the end is the best proof.
All other branches that were submerged in the long river of history were failures, because over the long period of time, none of the extraordinary people who came one after another reached the end.
They seemed to be lacking something most important, and this thing only existed in the hands of the ten true gods.
Chen Lun did not want to interfere with Maggie's choice, out of respect for her. But out of concern, he still told her implicitly about the hidden dangers.
Maggie seemed a little confused:
"Captain! Senior Akbin's manuscript clearly states this, but I don't care... Because I don't want to become a god, so why should I worry about this?"
Chen Lun was slightly stunned.
'Indeed, if you don't want to become a god, why worry about the dead path...?'
He couldn't help but chuckle at himself, shook his head and asked:
"Since you want to be promoted to Sequence 7 - Plague Doctor, you must have obtained the relevant supernatural knowledge, right?"
This time it was Maggie's turn to be stunned.
She shrugged and gave a frank smile:
"No."
"… "
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A small village around Amber City.
It seemed a bit desolate here, with few people seen moving around outside. Only the fires burning at the entrance of the village and on both sides of the road, and the bodies casually wrapped in dirty sheets, gave some signs of human presence.
In a deserted field in the village, a tall figure was bending over to arrange some ceremony.
He wore a crow mask and a brown windbreaker, and silently used a shovel to dig up the soil and draw some strange symbols.
There were some bottles and jars on the ground beside him, which looked very suspicious.
"Ah... Doctor Akbin, I'm very sorry to bother you, I..."
A humble call came from behind the tall man in the windbreaker.
He stood up, turned around, and saw an old man walking towards them, supporting a young girl.
"Shut up."
A buzzing and indifferent male voice came from Akbin's crow mask.
The old man stopped talking immediately, his face was anxious. He looked at the man in front of him with awe, then turned to look at his granddaughter.
"This is a sign of the onset of the 'Red Dance'. Um... in thirteen hours, you will fall into madness and die in an endless dance."
Akbin glanced at the girl indifferently.
The girl had a dull look on her face, her eyes were bloodshot, drool was flowing from the corners of her mouth, and she seemed to have a faint smile on her face.
"Dr. Akbin! Please, save my granddaughter!"
The old man suddenly burst into tears.
"Shut up! I said shut up! Didn't you hear me?!"
Akbin grabbed the old man by the thin collar and pushed him roughly to the ground.
Then a big hand held the girl's head and bent down to take a closer look.
"Um… "
He groaned.
“What a hassle!”
Akbin took out a small bottle of light red potion from his windbreaker pocket, snapped his fingers, and the cork flew out. Then he pinched the girl's face and poured the potion into her.
Then he patted her neck gently a few times.
After the girl was given the potion, she blinked her eyes and soon fell into a coma.
The old man rushed over and caught the girl, then knelt down and saluted the tall man.
"Thank you, thank you, Dr. Akbin!"
"roll!"
Akbin turned around and continued to do his work.
Seeing this, the old man didn't dare to disturb her any further and hurried away with his granddaughter in his arms.
"Although Dr. Akbin looks cold on the outside, he is kind-hearted at heart. Thank you very much. He is a messenger sent by the great sun god..."
The old man prayed silently.
But he didn't notice that a small pimple had quietly grown behind the girl's ear.
Akbin, who was working in the field, suddenly stopped shoveling and turned to look at the air around him.
A figure appeared out of nowhere and slowly walked out of the spirit world.
This was a brown-haired man wearing a gray vest, about thirty years old, but he was covered in wounds, with his cheeks and eyes broken and bleeding.
"Drink, are you going to fight that spirit creature again?"
A buzzing and cold sound of Akbin came from the crow mask.
Drinker, who was covered in wounds, smiled and spat out a mouthful of blood, then took out a cigarette and lit it.
He took a deep breath and then said:
"That pot monster is very strong, but I'm not bad either. This time I almost broke its lid... Next time I must smash it completely to see what's inside!"
Drinker subconsciously touched a pendant on his chest. It looked like a ball of roughly crumpled wire, with some bloodstains that seemed difficult to wash off.
"What a boring fight..."
Akbin continued to pick up the shovel and began to write and draw on the ground.
"If I hadn't been waiting for you, I wouldn't be so idle."
Drinker spoke up.
"By the way, what on earth are you doing here? To save these mortals? Ahaha, how funny!"
A mocking smile appeared on his face.
Akbin ignored his sarcasm and continued swinging his shovel. A voice came from the crow mask:
"If you want to fight me again, go ahead."
Drinker sneered and said no more.
"This is a simple experiment, but also a great one. If it succeeds, I will be promoted to Sequence 5 - Disaster Master..."
Akbin hummed.
"I don't care how far you go in that dead end. I just want to know when we can set off... Complete the club's assigned tasks as soon as possible and return home as soon as possible."
Drinker dropped his cigarette and said impatiently.
"My case will take another two weeks..."
Akbin said.
"Don't worry, it's just an investigation of the whereabouts of an external organization. It won't take long."
Drinker wanted to say something, but suddenly frowned and turned to look behind him.
He had a feeling that he was being spied on.
They saw a very ugly young man with abstract features. He looked at them with two eyes, one big and one small, in shock, and muttered strange words:
"Oh my god! Two wild bosses!"
He even went crazy and picked up a hatchet that was everywhere and rushed towards the two of them.
In Drink's eyes, this person was most likely a plague patient.
Bang!
With a casual slap, he sent the young man's head flying like a ball.
Blood gushed out like a fountain, and the headless corpse turned into white light and dissipated.
At the same time.
A new post appeared on the game forum, titled -
"Wow! I found two wild BOSSes on the Amber City map! If you are interested, please PM me. The price is negotiable!"
The post also includes a first-person video of the player.
It was Akbin, who was wearing a crow mask and a windbreaker, and Drinker, who had an impatient look and wounds all over his face.
"Landon", the vice president of the "Lost Name" guild, discovered the post for the first time and immediately contacted the player, purchasing the information and the specific address for 100,000 credit points.
The reason why he was so concerned was that he was in the vicinity of Amber City, and he had already gathered a group of guild members together... More importantly, the guild's only extraordinary player "Gan Ziwen" was also in Amber City.
He quickly contacted Gan Ziwen and asked him to come immediately to gather and defeat the BOSS together.
Landon thought that if they could kill these two wild BOSSes, they would definitely get rich rewards, and at the same time make the Lost Name Guild famous!
Just like what happened to the three major guilds and the Chuxi Guild some time ago!
As for being unable to defeat them? How strong could the wild bosses near the two novice villages be
“This is not a piece of cake haha…”
Landon laughed heartily.